Chapter 383: Tournament Prizes
Night City, Santo Domingo.
As the largest part of Night City, Santo Domingo is bordered by the Badlands to the east and is located on the outskirts of the city.
Thanks to its geographical location, Santo Domingo has also become an important industrial site in Night City, where several important power plants are located.
It's a pity that in the urbanization construction, compared with other urban areas, Santo Domingo is not satisfactory, there are few buildings in this urban area, and this half year has not brought much change to this urban area.
Anyway, following Jack to this city by car, Lin Mo also looked at the street scene outside the car through the car window on the way, and the streets and alleys were dilapidated and desolate.
It's more like a town that has nothing to do with Night City, and the prosperity of Night City doesn't cover it, and even the floating vehicles that pass through the sky are floating freighters, and there are no private luxury floats that often appear in the city center.
... They eventually came to a halt in a small clearing where several dilapidated warehouses were located.
It's early afternoon and the sun is shining.
Lin Mo stepped out of the car and stepped on the yellow earth - there are many places in Santo Domingue that have not been covered with concrete floors, and weeds can occasionally be seen growing wildly on these loesses.
It was his first time in a place like this.
When he came to Santo Domingue before, he spent most of his time in the studio and David's house, and rarely went elsewhere.
Lin Mo couldn't help but ask curiously:
"Have you moved all your bases to this place? I remember that the studio building is also near here, don't you usually choose to assemble the team in the studio?"
Without waiting for Jack to answer, Kitagawa Hiroshi behind him immediately replied:
"This is to avoid suspicion, since Lin Jun left, the team has been temporarily disbanded, and if we often go to the studio building to gather, it will also affect Ms. Gloria's business."
"Brother Hao is right, we can't bother people too much, after all, didn't you give some of it to Gloria before you left? Strictly speaking, the right to use that studio building also has a part of her, and if you're not there, where are we going?" Jack smiled playfully.
Lin Mo paused in understanding, and his eyes swept over the warehouses:
"So these warehouses are the new locations you've chosen?"
From the outside, these warehouses are relatively dilapidated, the yellow walls have appeared on the traces of wall paint peeling, and the entrance and exit of each warehouse is a metal roller shutter door, the metal door has long been stained with mottled rust.
Jack smiled and pointed to these warehouses and introduced, "They were all selected by Mann, it is said that their team used to meet in this kind of place, and then discuss the next tasks and plans, and after I took these warehouses down, I also renovated the interior... Forget it, I won't explain, you'll find out when you go in and see."
As he spoke, he led Lin Mo and Beichuan Hao to the door of the warehouse.
Before he could make any movements, the moment the three of them came to the door, the metal shutter door opened, and the curtain slowly moved up, making a noisy sound.
After the roller shutter door completely rose to the top, Lin Mo finally saw the internal structure of the warehouse clearly.
Neatly stacked metal boxes were placed in a corner of the warehouse, and several opened boxes could be seen through the cracks that the delicate guns, many machines, instruments and other items were placed around the warehouse.
Living furniture such as sofas, glass tables and wine cabinets are placed in the center.
Now, in addition to the three of them, there are other people in the warehouse.
On a narrow two-seater sofa, a large man wearing a thin jacket showing his dark chest muscles sat in a very arrogant posture, and next to him sat a burly blonde woman with her hands on her chest.
The rest of the people were all gathered around the couch - the technologist with two slender mechanical arms was lying on the back of the couch; The woman in a red coat with a breathing mask implanted in her face leaned on the side of the sofa with her hands in her pockets; Dressed as a western cowboy
, the man with a two-pronged mustache on his lips sat on the armrest on the other side of the sofa.
Finally, the boy, who also had a strong physique, wearing a yellow jacket and a hedgehog head, stood at the front of these people, and a smile could not stop at the corner of his mouth.
All eyes in the warehouse were fixed on the three people who broke into the warehouse... No, to be exact, they all looked at the teenager in the center of the three.
Without exception, all these eyes invariably looked at the young man's whole body, and then the feelings contained in his eyes also turned into joy and emotion of reunion after a long absence.
Mann, Dolio, Pila, Qiwei, Falco and David, the old people are all in front of him, Lin Mo smiled very casually, and said the line that has been repeated many times:
"Long time no see, guys."
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It took a long time to meet, and Mann and the others were naturally full of emotion, but they didn't have endless words like Jack and Kitagawa Hiroshi.
After a brief greeting and exchange, everyone also exchanged information smoothly, and Lin Mo, Mann and the others all knew each other's general experience in the past six months.
"I have to say that you kid is really fateful, and a nuclear bomb can't kill you, can you take the time to tell me how you escaped from the explosion range of the nuclear bomb? Damn, just thinking about that scene makes me so excited, how the hell did you do that!"
Mann jokingly picked up his fist and gently hammered Lin Mo's shoulder, looking like Lin Mo would not give up if he didn't say anything, the urgency on his face was visible to the naked eye, and the whole person was fascinated by the wonderful places when he heard the story, but he was stunned to hear the sentence "Please listen to the next breakdown", and the eagerness in his heart naturally didn't need to be said.
Urged by Mann like this, Lin Mo was also very helpless, sighed and said seriously: "I came here today, in addition to meeting with you, I also have something to do, Mann, don't urge me to explain the situation at that time."
"Okay, when you're done with your business, I'll come back and talk to you again!" Mann finally chose to let Lin Mo go.
Getting out of Mann's urging, the other party's burly body left in front of him, and Lin Mo only felt that his vision suddenly brightened.
But before he could feel that Mann's figure was like a mountain, another "mountain" appeared in front of him in the next second.
"Lin Mo, I'm relieved to see you again." David looked condescendingly at his former classmate and put his hand on his shoulder with a happy expression.
This scene, if it is changed to another situation, is completely the encouragement of the star to the children who love basketball, the star looked down at the child and patted the shoulder, and said the experience of the people who came over, and then the little kid with a height difference of dozens of centimeters was also excited, and he was almost crying when he was inspired by the idol... What a ghost!
Lin Mo's mouth tugged, and he raised his eyes to look up at his former classmate.
With a familiar face and an unfamiliar physique, the former "Little Beanding" has become a "big man", and he really wonders if his classmate has joined the [Animal Gang], which is known for its muscles and brainlessness.
[In view of the general environment,
Still, he saw the root of why David became the way he was.
- Before leaving Night City, he gave David a valuable creature component as a parting gift.
In that gift, he carefully selected biological prostheses, and each prosthesis was made from David's DNA data, and the safety was absolutely guaranteed.
However, although that gift does contain prosthetics that can strengthen the physique, such as [Reconstructed Muscle Strengthening] and [Muscle Beam Strengthening], if all implanted can indeed make your own body much stronger, it is impossible to make David a "big muscle bully"...
This is clearly beyond the strength of the biological components, but it is not much weaker than Mann's mechanical prosthetic body.
Seeing Lin Mo dumbfounded
Look, Mann, who was standing on the side, also said quite happily:
"How is it, Lin Mo, is David's body surprising you? Those creature components of yours are safe, but how can they be as strong as a mechanical prosthetic forged from steel?"
"So, during your absence, we completed several missions, during which David also felt the lack of his own strength, so he asked a prosthetic doctor to implant some mechanical prostheses such as skin metal armor, and now he is the main force of the team!"
Lin Mo didn't say anything anymore, just looked at David silently, his eyes revealing the meaning of inquiry.
David saw what Lin Mo meant from this look, and said with a smile on his face:
"Don't worry, I'm fine, my mother didn't object to me, and I didn't remove the biological components you gave me, if I'm not satisfied, I can always remove some of the mechanical prostheses, but now is not the time."
At this time, Kitagawa Hao also walked to Lin Mo's side and whispered:
"Lin Jun doesn't need to worry too much, David is very talented in the use of prostheses, and the whole process is controlled by Lao Wei, and he also said that there will be no problems, and... The Regina Institute's cybermaniac cure program has now made a certain breakthrough."
Lin Mo still didn't speak, and began to calmly observe David's body.
There was an eerie silence when the warehouse landed.
The roles on the court have been completely reversed, and the children who should have loved basketball have now begun to look at the stars with a scrutinizing attitude, while the tall stars are waiting for the children's "review" with a restrained face.
It seems that in order to show his strength in today's meeting, David deliberately didn't wear much clothes, just wearing a yellow jacket that Lin Mo gave him in the past, and his strong abdominal muscles and muscles were displayed in front of Lin Mo's eyes without reservation.
Through the knowledge of prosthetics that he had made up during his internship at Kangtao Company, and then compared them with the prosthetic traces on David's body one by one, Lin Mo also found that the facts were the same as those explained by Kitagawa Hao and David.
The main factor that created David's current "big muscle" figure is the mechanical prosthesis, and the secondary factor is the biological component, and the mechanical prosthetic currently implanted in David's body is indeed a detachable type of component.
In this way, he listened to his own words to some extent, and did not blindly implant various prostheses.
If you implant a mechanical prosthesis that cannot be disassembled, such as [Whole Body Metal Skeleton Replacement], then you don't even have to take regret medicine.
Lin Mo breathed a sigh of relief, and then showed a surging ridicule:
"Mann says you're strong now, do you think he's telling the truth? David."
David's brows furrowed, and a hint of bad things suddenly rose in his heart.
Although he hadn't seen his classmate for more than half a year, the process of the other party teasing him in the past was still vivid, and now when he heard Lin Mo speak like this, David also felt that something was wrong for the first time.
Without waiting for him to explain, Mann, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, stood aside and arched the fire:
"Hey, don't you take my word for it? Lin Mo, don't underestimate David, his current strength doesn't know how many times more than before!"
"I see." Lin Mo nodded clearly,
He began to look around the warehouse, and soon found his target.
Walking to the corner of the warehouse, Lin Mo opened the cover of a metal box with his bare hands, and took out an Omaha pistol from it, and the magazine was not loaded.
"I'll count to three, and I'll see if you can react... Forget it, I won't bully you, let's all go together, it's up to you to see who gets the gun first, and for the sake of fairness, I won't use Sänwistein."
Lin Mo smiled, and the Omaha pistol was thrown into the air like a clown's toy ball in the palm of his hand, spinning and falling into his hand:
"Oh, I forgot to mention, if anyone can satisfy me, I'll give him a unique prize... And this prize, heh, is very generous anyway!"
Before everyone could figure out what he meant, Lin Mo had already begun to count down.
"One."
David's face changed, and then his eyes sank slightly, staring at Lin Mo expressionlessly.
"Two."
The rest of the people finally reacted, and everyone had a more or less interested look on their faces.
They naturally knew that Lin Mo had always been generous, and the prize that he could call "unique" and "generous" must be a big gift that none of them could refuse!
Moreover, Lin Mo also promised not to use Sianweistan, so they are not without a chance.
Many thoughts flashed through everyone's minds, and they all stared at Lin Mo nervously, waiting for the final countdown.
"Three."
The pistol was thrown forward by Lin Mo, and an arc was drawn in mid-air, and everyone ran forward.
However, as soon as he started, there were two figures far ahead, and they were David and Mann, who opened Sianweistan.
Lin Mo said that he wouldn't use the speed component, but that didn't mean they couldn't use it.
This game, in the final analysis, is only the home of the two of them!
The afterimage passed quickly, and in less than a second, the game was decided.
The two figures were incomparably close, their movements turned from rapid to extremely quiet, and at this moment both of them were stagnant like statues, one smiling, the other smiling bitterly.
Lin Mo smiled and held the unloaded pistol, the cold muzzle of the gun was just against David's forehead, and at this time, David's outstretched palm was only less than a few centimeters away from the pistol.
Behind him was Mann, who was a few steps behind, and the others who had not been implanted in Sanweistein.
"You've done a great job, you've grown a lot." Lin Mo looked at David with complicated eyes and praised:
"And that mysterious prize is already yours."